A couple of days ago, I quoted this newspaper which said that UN report states that 94 per cent of Egyptian women are victims of domestic violence, but I could not verify this from original sources. Well, hat tip to Lali Sandiumenge who send me the link to the report, which you can find it in http://www.unfpa.org/. It is called "State of world population 2005 The promise of Equality: Gender & Reproductive Health". The chapter about domestic violence is in http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2005/english/ch7/
However, as Lali brought to my attention that the report doesn't say that 94% of Egyptian women are victims of domestic violence, instead it says that 94% of Egyptian woman believe wife beating is justified for at least one reason. See above Fig.
State of World Population 2005 report is 128 pages (PDF), rich of information. Recommended reading for all Human Rights activist.
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Glad you got it! Told ya, always come to Miss Mabrouk first, don’t see why you went all the way to Hindustan! :-) /ritzy
http://missmabrouk.blogspot.com/2005/10/egyptian-women-yes-to-beating.html
Sorry, Ritzy. I feel shy :-)
But don’t blame me. I monitor more than 200 blogs and news sources a day, on top of another +280 emails a day :-(
Anyway, promise to keep closer track ;-)